When you are playing a gambling game, it is always worth taking a look at the odds to find out what chances you have of winning. Even if you are just playing for fun, it can be good to find out a bit more about the prizes, how many there are and what the chance is of winning any prize and the biggest prize. This will give you a good idea of how many cards you will have to buy in order to give yourself a good chance of winning a prize as well as what value that prize is likely to be.
You may feel that calculating odds is quite difficult, but it is actually quite simple to understand. For example if the odds of winning a prize on a scratch card in one in four it means that for every four scratch cards that you buy, you will have a chance of winning a prize on one of them. The chances of winning the top prize will be much higher.
Often the scratch card will have the odds written on the back of it. If you play online then the odds will be in the terms and conditions. You may feel that the best chance you have of winning the better the card. However, it is worth considering what the prizes are. If you have a 1 in 4 chance of winning but the lowest prize value is less than you pay for a card, you have to consider whether this is better than a one in six chance of winning when the prize is equal to the value of the card or a 1 in ten chance when the prizes are larger than the value of the card.
This is when the decision making gets more tricky and you have to decide whether you want to have a big chance of winning any prize or whether you would rather have a high value prize if you win anything at all. This is very much a personal decision and it will depend on your own way of thinking. People are all very different as to whether they would rather win a small prize or a larger one.